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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






2. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






3. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






4. Broken down acts.






5. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






6. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






7. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






8. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






9. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






10. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






11. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






12. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






13. The time and place of a story or play.






14. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






15. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






16. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






17. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






18. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






19. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






20. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






21. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






22. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






23. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






24. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






25. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






26. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






27. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






28. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






29. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






30. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






31. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






33. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






34. The organizational form of a literary work.






35. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






36. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






37. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






38. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






39. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






40. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






41. A three-line stanza.






42. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






43. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






44. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






45. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






46. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






47. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






48. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






49. A short saying with a moral.






50. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






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